Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 19)

Changes that will ignite our engines of growth

Mixed metaphors

Out of the frying pan, into a handbasket.

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That's a hard bubble to crack.

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Clearly we’ve opened a Pandora’s box of worms here.

Mixed metaphors

I'd like to be a fish on the wall at that meeting.

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If he were alive today, he’d be turning over in his grave.

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He's the meanest man on the face of the universe.

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Fewer and fewer in between

Misspokements Mixed metaphors

We will burn that horse when we get there.

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Dirty laundry is coming home to roost.

Misspokements Mixed metaphors

When you boil it down to its nuts and bolts

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He wanted to get out from under his father's coat strings.

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I’m so hungry I could beat a dead horse.

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Don't count your chickens until you see the whites of their eyes.

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That snake in the grass is barking up the wrong tree.

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He's been burning the midnight oil at both ends.

English sports commentator
Mixed metaphors Sports

The rain was coming down in droves!

Mixed metaphors Science/Weather

It's like locking the barn door after the nuts have bolted.

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War is hell on wheels.

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It sounds good on paper.

Ideas Intelligence Mixed metaphors

I don’t think we should jump at straws here.

Mixed metaphors